Declaration of Income in the philippines

[mrsartis 10]

please guys, i need your advise or your experiences.. did you choose file married filing jointly or married filing separately.. i dont have US income yet.. what did you guys do? for last year? what happen? for this year?

thanks in advance..

[jom 4]

I don't think you can file until you are working.

[dale_trisha 3]

its a no brainer since you had not income. File Married Jointly. You do need to file just to help your AOS interview case later.

[mrsartis 10]

its a no brainer since you had not income. File Married Jointly. You do need to file just to help your AOS interview case later.

thanks, for your replies..

need your experiences please keep it coming.. thank you

[dale_trisha 3]

A bit more info. Since you were a part time resident in the US you need to follow the instructions in IRS Pub 519. Essentially your eligable to fill as a full time resident as long as you and your husband agree to be taxed on your global income and sign a statement which is outlined in the Pub. So you do have this to consider. So this woud come into play if you made significant money in 2008 when you lived in Phil or if your husband made money in other countries or was treated as an expat.

[mrsartis 10]

has anyone worked in the philippines in the 08 or 07 but didint declare their income with their spouses here? what happen? result?

[mrsartis 10]

has anyone worked in the philippines in the 08 or 07 but didint declare their income with their spouses here? what happen? result?

thanks.. i now have the information (tax reports) or 2316 from the company i have worked for the tax year 2008... and will jsut do a trial and error on which choice will we make .. should i file for 2555 too?

thanks any help is appreciated ..

[noel_jas 0]

has anyone worked in the philippines in the 08 or 07 but didint declare their income with their spouses here? what happen? result?

hi i did work til sept 08 but i never bothered declaring it here. it did not cross my mind actually until i read your post. my husband's dad who works for H & R block will do his taxes and he did not ask me about my income in PI so I assume that there's no need for me to declare it.

Edited February 5, 2009 by pinoy_pinay

[mrsartis 10]

has anyone worked in the philippines in the 08 or 07 but didint declare their income with their spouses here? what happen? result?

hi i did work til sept 08 but i never bothered declaring it here. it did not cross my mind actually until i read your post. my husband's dad who works for H & R block will do his taxes and he did not ask me about my income in PI so I assume that there's no need for me to declare it.

know what.. its just a lot of work to do but it will eventually end up with one thing its still going to be ecxluded i think i have read the form 2555 my income didnt reach $87,500 together with my rent and stuffs same result... hay...

[Mitchamy 0]

please guys, i need your advise or your experiences.. did you choose file married filing jointly or married filing separately.. i dont have US income yet.. what did you guys do? for last year? what happen? for this year?

thanks in advance..

My husband filed Joint Tax since i dont have income yet and we had our tax refund last week.

[Mitchamy 0]

has anyone worked in the philippines in the 08 or 07 but didint declare their income with their spouses here? what happen? result?

Hubby's sis n law working in IRS says income back in Phils. doesnt count.

[HappyDancer 7]

You guys are amazing! Learned a lot in this thread!

[sunlyk 1]

its a no brainer since you had not income. File Married Jointly. You do need to file just to help your AOS interview case later.

Your income in PH has nothing to do in US Tax, probably pay your tax to PH BIR not in US. You have no work here yet nothing to declare here.

[mrsartis 10]

its a no brainer since you had not income. File Married Jointly. You do need to file just to help your AOS interview case later.

Your income in PH has nothing to do in US Tax, probably pay your tax to PH BIR not in US. You have no work here yet nothing to declare here.

sorry i just got confused and help other who hasnt made theirs yet, so we can avoid irs problems.. here is the link..

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...90&start=90

i learned a lot.. thanks tata and tom and Nich-Nick

[mrsartis 10]

this statement helped me a lot and now i know what to do.. so wont get in trouble.. this is not an opinion, just going by the book... thanks guys for sharing..:

QUOTE (Cecile and Bryan @ Feb 5 2009, 08:28 AM) *

Alright so we tried a little more with TaxCut with no luck (btw we were using the online version, so supposedly up-to-date). So I decided to just try to fill out the form manually.

I think we did pretty good, the amount in the end is what TaxCut told us + the $600 recovery rebate or whatever it is called. For info, we're pretty sure TaxCut told us the right amount, the problem is that it says there are errors so we can't proceed until the end. So we did it manually. It wasn't too hard since there are only two files and the instructions are pretty good most of the time. We even did the state taxes too.

Assuming all this is good, I know we have to add a statement saying that we want me to be treated as a US resident even though I don't have my green card yet.

But I have one more question: am I supposed to show a proof of my foreign income (the US citizen shows his W2, what does the foreign spouse show?) and if so, what am I supposed to give them? I didn't find any instructions about that.

I've mailed mine. It included in this order:

* Subsitute W2 Form 4852 filled out and signed by the one with foreign income.

* USCs W2s attached to front of 1040

* Form 1040

* Schedule B & D (you might not have these depending on your income)

* Form 2555EZ Foreign Earned Income Exclusion ( I did the pdf version from irs.gov where you can type and save and print)

* Statement: Nonresident spouse treated as resident signed by both

You could have different Schedules, like Schedule A if you itemize or other forms that fit your return so my list is not what everybody would have. Bolded items you would have most likely. I chose to use the 2555EZ from the IRS and took out the 2555 printed by TurboTax because it was a shorter, easier form for people not taking a housing exclusion. I flled it in on TurboTax to do the exclusion but traded forms for mailing. There wasn't an EZ in my version of TurboTax.

There's always free TurboTax online if you want to give it a run through to compare totals. I came up with the same number on both free online versions. Wouldn't be a bad idea to check yourself since this is a complicated tax year. TurboTax wil let you move forward without info being completed.

Edit: Forgot to say, no actual UK documents were sent as "proof" of income. Just the subsitute W2 Form 4852.